From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 3:50:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9620637BE89 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 03:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000726105035.QQYS25440.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 03:50:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 06:50:42 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <731155760.20000726065042@home.com> To: Andy Farkas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: troublesome log messages In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Andy Farkas Wednesday, July 26, 2000 Thanks for your quick response Andy. Now I have a few more questions. /snippage/ > # dd if=/dev/wd0s1c of=/dev/null bs=64k The disk on that system are laid out like: $ mount /dev/wd0a on / (local) /dev/wd0s1e on /tmp (local) Will the slices interfere with the dd command? This is a production machine so I don't want to take any chances. > which will try and read your entire disk (assuming your disk is wd0). >> > 28507083 copy-on-write faults >> > 2168 intransit blocking page faults >> > 70344615 total VM faults taken >> /snippage/ > Looks like your system has been running for a while :-) $ uptime 6:41AM up 28 days, 8:42, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Is this an acceptable uptime for that number of vm "faults"? Sure it's longer than I've ever managed to get an M$ product to run, but it doesn't even come close to some of the uptimes I've had on other systems... /snippage/ --Ben Williams mailto:received@email dot com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message